Summoning the world to be one

Chapter 208 The Dilemma of the Han Army

Chapter 2: The Dilemma of the Han Army

In the 15th year of Qianyuan, on September [-]th, under the command of commander-in-chief Bai Qi, the Qin army first attacked Chencang, then surrounded Yongxian County, and finally cut off the Han army's food road, and besieged more than [-] Han troops in Yongxian County with crossbow formations. .

In the county government office of Yongxian County, the King of Han looked at Cao Tian with a defeated face in front of him. He was very angry, but he was also very helpless. He knew that Cao Tian had tried his best, but the Qin army was too cunning, and coupled with the huge lethal Xingnu, the defeat of the Han army is understandable.

"General Cao, is there any other way to break through the siege of the Qin army now? You must know that although Yong County has
There is a little food, but it can only be used for two 10,000+ troops for three months, and winter is coming soon. Yong County lacks winter clothes. If the road to Mei County cannot be opened, we will either starve to death or freeze to death. The King of Han asked Cao Tian with a sullen face. Although there is no food crisis in the Han army at present, it is the end of September and winter is approaching. How can the Han army survive without winter clothes.

Cao Tian shook his head bitterly, and said: "Going back to the king, I have nothing to do. The Qin army is in the front with crossbows. As long as our army breaks through the siege, it will immediately be shot by the Qin army with ten thousand arrows. These few days , I also tried to send a small group of soldiers and horses to break through the encirclement, but they all died under the star-killing crossbow before they could reach the Qin army's position."

"But we can't sit still. General Cao, you are the most capable general in the Han Dynasty. I implore you to find a way to break out of the encirclement." In order to get rid of this predicament, the King of Han even uttered words of pleading. , At this time, the King of Han is already somewhat regretful. Why did he come to Yong County? Wouldn’t it be good to stay in Chang’an? Now it’s all right, he’s besieged by others, and it’s still a mystery whether he can leave safely now.

"Your Majesty, the only solution for now is to gather all the materials in Yongxian County and rush to make a batch of winter clothes, as many as you can." Cao Tian said with a wry smile.

The weather is getting colder and colder. According to previous years, there will be heavy snowfall in Guanzhong soon. If it were previous years, Hanwang would look forward to a snowfall in the coming year, but now, he is more and more afraid of the arrival of this snow. , because he knew that if they still failed to leave Yong County before the first snow appeared, many of the 10,000+ Han army would freeze to death in Yong County.

On September 15, 26th year of Qianyuan, tens of thousands of Han troops from Hanzhong came out of Xiegu and attacked the Qin army in the area of ​​Chencang in an attempt to tear open a hole to meet the Han king's breakout, but things backfired, and these tens of thousands of Han troops entered Bai Qi In the pre-prepared traps, almost the entire army was wiped out.

On the high ground of the Qin army's position, Bai Qi was wrapped in leather clothes, followed by four generals of the Qin army, Sheritu, Ma Sheng, Ying Huai, and Wang Feng.

"Is there any news from General Meng? I'm afraid it will snow soon this day, and now our army's food and grass are about to bottom out. If there is no food and grass delivered, and the Han army is not dead, we will go first." Dead." Bai Qi asked a few people, the current situation seems to be very favorable to the Qin army, but Bai Qi knows that the Qin army is actually struggling at every step, the Qin army is different from the Han army fighting in the mainland, the Qin army needs All the food, grass and military supplies have to be transported from Xiliang, not to mention the long distance, if there is any accident, it may lead to a complete defeat on the front line.

"Don't worry, General Bai. General Meng has sent someone to report this morning. The next batch of food and grass has already started to leave. It will be delivered to our army within ten days." Wang Feng, who has been in charge of contacting Meng Zhan, replied. .

Hearing that the food and grass were delivered soon, Bai Qi also heaved a sigh of relief, and said: "That's good over there, but this batch of food and grass is very important, General Wang, thank you for your hard work and bringing people to meet it yourself, there must be no mistakes."

"Here!" Wang Feng replied.

At this time, in Yongxian City, due to the cold weather and the lack of winter clothes, many soldiers had already started to shiver, complaining non-stop, and even a negative mentality appeared in the army, which made the entire Han army look like it was dying. .

Cao Tian was inspecting the barracks, but along the way, what he saw was lifeless, three or five soldiers were surrounded by a circle, warming up by the brazier, without winter clothes, the Han army could only use this to keep warm, as for daily training , I'm afraid I don't have any thoughts to carry it out.

Watching this scene.Cao Tian sighed helplessly. He really wanted to go up and reprimand him, but he held back in the end. He knew that if the soldiers were not allowed to do this, it might cause mutiny in the army. so sad.

"General Cao!" Just as Cao Tian finished his tour of the barracks and was about to return to the camp of the Chinese army, Xiahou Wuji came to him.

Cao Tian looked at Xiahou Wuji in front of him and said, "General Xiahou, what's the matter?"

"Alas..." Xiahou Wuji sighed, and said, "What else can it be? Isn't it a matter of winter clothes? The winter clothes sent by Yongxian City are really too few. Many soldiers in the army are fighting for one. The last general tried to stop him, and even resorted to military law, but it still couldn't be stopped, so I wanted to ask General Cao what he meant."

"Go, take me to have a look." After Cao Tian heard this, he immediately asked Xiahou Wuji to take him to have a look, and Xiahou Wuji hurriedly led the way.

When the two came to a military camp, two groups of people had already fought, and even several winter clothes were torn during the pulling. Cao Tian was very annoyed when he saw it, and asked his personal guards to take them down and deal with them by military law.

After solving these small episodes, Cao Tian returned to the big tent of the Chinese army. Now in front of the map, he is looking for a way to break through. In this situation, he can only break through. As long as he retreats to Mei County, all crises will be solved, but The problem is that if you want to break through the siege, you have to face the Qin army's star-killing crossbow formation head-on, which means that the casualties of breaking through the siege will be great, but fortunately, the Qin army only has [-] crossbowmen. , so the number of crossbows in each place is not very large. As long as the Han army concentrates in one place and rushes out regardless of casualties, it can still break through.

What Cao Tian is looking for now is the best place to break through, but the biggest problem now is that Bai Qi, the commander of the Qin Army, is on the main road leading to Mei County. Tian was very afraid of him, even fearful. This man was unpredictable in his use of troops, and he could always predict the enemy's opportunity. It was too difficult to break out from under his nose.

But at this time, a piece of good news came. Because Bai Qi was not used to the climate in Guanzhong, he was not acclimatized and returned to Yumi. He appointed Wang Feng to command the Qin army in the direction of Mei County.

This is tantamount to great news. Cao Tian is not afraid of Qin Jun without Bai Qi, let alone a mere Wang Feng, even if Meng Zhan is standing here, Cao Tian will not love him, but Cao Tian is afraid This was Bai Qi's conspiracy, so he sent a large number of scouts to investigate in the direction of Mei County and Yumi. The final result was that Wang Feng officially took over the Qin army from the direction of Mei County, and Bai Qi also returned to Yumi, and Someone saw a group of cars with the banner of "Bai" leaving Yumi and heading west. It was suspected that Bai Qi was seriously ill and returned to Xiliang.

After Cao Tian knew about it, he was overjoyed, so he immediately went to see the king of Han and reported his plan to break out of the siege to the king of Han. It's not a problem, there is no one who can't die in a war. Besides, breaking out is death, staying in Yong County is still dead, why not fight it, so Han Wang nodded and agreed to Cao Tian's breakout plan.

But what Cao Tian and the King of Han didn't know was that all of this was actually Bai Qi's conspiracy. He knew that as long as he was in the area of ​​Mei County for a day, Cao Tian would not choose to break through because he was afraid of himself. Surrounded by 10,000+ Han troops, but it will take a long time. Qin is located in the barren land of Xiliang, and its national strength is limited. It cannot support so many soldiers and horses for a long time. Therefore, Bai Qi can only pretend to be sick and leave. Mei County, returned to Yumi, and even pretended to be seriously ill and returned to Xiliang to lure Cao Tian to break out of the siege. In fact, as early as after Bai Qi returned to Yumi, he secretly returned to the area of ​​Mei County. Step by step, he led the Han army into his carefully prepared death ground.

(End of this chapter)